Logistics

Moving Artworks/ Moving House/ Moving Business

Art Workshop can help you alleviate the stress of handling and packing artworks that need to be moved. We offer a professional art packing and moving service throughout the greater Auckland area. We handle valuable artworks every day and are highly trained in all elements of safe art handling and professional best practice. You can trust us to safely pack and deliver your precious works.

Sending Artworks Across Town/ Country/ Worldwide

Do you need help sorting out freight logistics to move your art? Art Workshop can help organize delivering your art wherever it needs to go. We can assist with everything from organizing freight pickups and deliveries through to customs requirements.

Quality Crating

Art Workshop offers you professional best-practice crating solutions. Whether you require the highest standards in museum crating or a simple, economical solution to move your valuables across town, we can provide you with solutions that best fit your needs and ensure the safe arrival of your artwork.
Art Workshop draws from International best-practice crate building, ensuring the finest in both external and internal design and construction, safe artwork support and ease of unpacking and packing. This results in a superior product that has the protection of your investment paramount.

Museum Standard Crating
Museum standard crating is the highest standard of crating available. Required by leading museums and art galleries, these will provide you with many years of dependable service.

Other Crating and packaging Options
The superior quality of museum standard crating has a trickle-down effect for the range of additional crating and packaging options available to you. We build lightweight single use or return trip crates to give you a cost effective option whilst still providing safe protection of your valuables.

Multi-Use Standard Crate
A simplified version of the museum standard crate, these are well constructed and cost effective. Recommended for multiple destinations or for use in long-term storage of artworks and artifacts.

Economy crate and hand-carry crates
Sturdy and safe, these crates will last for several uses but is generally built as a one-way, or limited use crate.

Traveling frames
Designed to protect particularly fragile or valuable paintings and ceramics. Travel frames protect without providing a full crate and allow a floating space around the sides and face of the work.

Couriering
Hand delivered artworks. We offer a personal couriering service anywhere in the world.

Unique Canvases/ Re-stretching Paintings

Unique Canvases
Do you have a brilliant idea for a one-off canvas size or shape? Art Workshop offers a custom build and stretching service. It could be a 100mm thick, 2m wide circular tondo or a set of triangular hardboards - Art Workshop can make it for you.

Re-stretching Paintings
Do you have a painting that is sagging or in a warped frame? Art Workshop offers an experienced and safe re-stretching service. We are able to stretch any number of fabrics. Our product of choice to stretch works on to is The Turnbuckle Stretcher.